On Oct 27, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
The thing that holds back Pd-extended is that very few people help to work on a proper release cycle, meaning make a release branch, do lots of testing, and fix the bugs. With more help, this would go faster. I just didn't want to release with showstopper bugs. Sadly I had to, Gem on GNU/Linux new ATI cards is almost unusable, as Roman can attest.
Well, that's what I'm talking about: bugs in one part like Gem will hold up everything else. It's like pd-extended-huge is trying to grab that magical moment in time, when everything works. And even that is not consistent: IIR the Gem in pd-extended is much newer than the Pd in pd-extended. So on one hand everthing may fall apart again when starting to work on whatever is considered version number 0.40, on the other hand it seems an arbitrary decision which versions of certain components get chosen.
And then, assuming somebody can fix Gem on Ati cards, it's not easily possible to upgrade just Gem in Pd-extended's monolithic build.
Also, I don't switch to Miller's next version till he's done with the bugfix releases. It's a lot of work to switch to new sources from Miller, and even more to try to track his changes.
Okay, I can understand that and it sounds sensible.
That said, if someone else wants to speed up the cycle, and start working against miller's code, then they should step right up! :D
And as an experiment, I made a new autobuild called "pd-main+libs", which is Pd straight from the HEAD of MAIN and the rest of Pd- extended. None of the patches are included tho, so it shouldn't be considered "Pd-extended", though it's labeled that way (Pd-0.41.0- extended-20071027-debian-testing-i386.deb). This will only build on GNU/Linux. I need to patch Miller's sources in order to make builds on Windows and Mac OS X.
.hc
Ciao
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